On 13 November, I had the pleasure of visiting my first Scottish Web Folk conference held at the University of Dundee. I didn’t go alone, and you can read about my colleagues’ perspectives here: The Scottish Web Folk ceilidh at Dundee The UX team reflect on Scottish Web Folk 2024 The day was packed with […]

The first UCISA UX in Higher Education conference happened in September 2024. Reflecting on the day, there was much to take in and share, both as a UX practitioner and as lead of the team planning the conference.

On 13 November the UX Service team attended the second Scottish Web Folk event hosted by the Web Services team at the University of Dundee. The conference included a day of sessions on varied web-related topics, with something for everyone in the team to take away.  

The 2nd conference for the Scottish Higher Education Web and Digital community took place a few days ago, hosted by the University of Dundee. This event is extremely popular and relevant with teams across our University, to the point that there was a “special” pile of lanyards with the label “Edinburgh” on top, beside the […]

I valued the opportunity to hear from and speak with other Drupal enthusiasts from Scotland and beyond when the University hosted DrupalCamp Scotland, a one-day event on 25 October 2024 organised by the local Drupal Association.

Earlier this week, Emma Horrell, User Experience Manager, and I travelled to Cambridge to attend the annual Digital Leaders meeting, hosted at the University of Cambridge. Janus Boye has been organising and facilitating similar meetings for several years, and there were some very interesting discussions related to leading and managing digital services and products. My […]

  Understanding and Measuring the Environmental Impact of the University of Edinburgh’s Web Estate – Initial Insights and Further Questions from my Summer Internship.

This month we hosted the second of our new Content Improvement Monthly meet-ups at Argyle House – it was great to see everyone who attended and really interesting to hear about different experiences of managing long content pages.                   For those who haven’t heard about Content Improvement […]

On Tuesday 17 September 2024 people from educational institutions across the UK will gather in Manchester for a day of talks, workshops and networking on the theme of challenges and opportunities of UX in Education. Tickets are now on sale if you would like to join us.

Space designed to inform how you can use our internal AI to enhance your work experience. For quite some time, LTW’s own AI Knowledge Hub has been available in the Generative AI Resource and Information Hub for LTW on SharePoint. It is aimed at providing general information on available AI tools and the associated ethical […]